New Glasses

So I was thinking of doing some more self portraits now that I have New glasses and then I realized New would work for N, score! (or cop-out since this was not specifically started for N but hey it works) So we finally went to get our eyes checked the other day so I could finally get some new glasses. It has been probably over 4 years and my old glasses were falling apart. The new ones are a bit different in style but I think I am used to them and am almost used to the new prescription.

Knees

Took me a while to come up with an idea for K that I somewhat liked. Then I came up with this idea of using scrabble pieces but I did not want to just photograph the letter K for this and be done, so I had this idea of spelling out the word knees with the scrabble letters and then having someone in the background (ended up being me yet again) with mainly their knees showing. I also liked the idea of the person being out of the focus area and blurred out slightly, for me this makes the word the focus with the background helping to reinforce the idea (also my knees being blurred out hopefully does not scare anyone away). I also felt a black and white conversion would bring more to the picture than leaving it in color.

Self Portrait

I did some portrait photos of a guy recently who needed a photo for his web site, so before hand over a few days I did several self portraits to practice and have down what I could do for him. I probably took 50 self portraits, most of which I deleted, figuring out the best way to light and pose it with the tools I have. These are a few I had taken during that process, minus the two horizontal shots at the bottom as those were taken today and I think were influenced by me spending too much time being harassed by the kids!

I

I set up this photo.
I took this photo.
I am in this photo.

That covers I.